This day in Formula 1 History...

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

August 18th:

1957 - Stirling Moss won Pescara Grand Prix, 3 minutes ahead of pole sitter Juan Manuel Fangio. The race is best remembered for being held at the longest ever circuit to stage a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix.
1974 - Carlos Reutemann won Austrian GP, 43 seconds ahead of Dennis Hulme.
1985 - Alain Prost completed the weekend sweep by winning the Austrian GP. This was also the first time that all cars on the grid were powered by turbocharged engines.
2002 - Rubens Barrichello won Hungarian GP in a Ferrari 1-2. The race was so dull that for the following year it was decided to reduce the distance from 77 to 70 laps. Also Anthony Davidson made his first GP start.

August 19th:

1973 - Ronnie Peterson won Austrian GP ahead of Jackie Stewart.
1975 - Mark Donohue succumbed to his injuries sustained in a practice ahead of Austrian GP.
1984 - Niki Lauda won his home race for the first and only time: Austrian GP (obviously).
This race also marked first GP start for Gerhard Berger. Also the race was restarted because of an improper starting procedure, due to the lights (according to Niki Lauda) going red, then green, then yellow and back to red again. This race was also famous because for the first time in Formula One history none of the cars starting on the grid had a naturally aspirated engine.
2001 - Michael Schumacher won Hungarian GP ahead of Rubens Barrichello in a Ferrari 1-2. Schumacher also equaled Alain Prost record for most ever wins - 51.

 

[Shane Butler]

Also Nico Hulkenberg is 25 today

 

[Chris Jenkins]

August 21st:

2005: Kimi Raikkonen wins the Turkish GP for McLaren. Alonso 2nd for Renault.

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

August 22nd:

1947 - Ian Scheckter, the elder brother of 1979 Formula One champion Jody Scheckter, was born. Between 1974 and 1977 he made 18 starts achieving no success what so ever. He is more known domestically for winning 6 South African National Drivers Championships.
1954 - Fangio lapped the entire field up to second, winning by nearly a minute at Swiss GP in Bremgarten. Fangio clinched the drivers title with two races to go, retaking the record for the most wins in the process. Also this was the last F1 race in Switzerland as goverment banned all forms of motor racing following 1955 Le Mans disaster.
1970 - John Surtees won a non-championship race - XVII International Gold Cup,held at Oulton Park.
1971 - John Surtees retained his International Gold Cup title.

August 23rd:

1952 - Mike Hawthorn won a non championship race - I National Trophy at Turnberry driving a Connaught.
1953 - Alberto Ascari won Swiss Grand Prix scoring his last win, last podium, last points and securing his 2nd and last world championship title. This race marked the brief return of Grand Prix era legend Hermann Lang who didn't disappoint scoring 2 world championship points finishing in 5th.
1959 - Stirling Moss lapped everyone to win Portuguese Grand Prix and put himself back into the championship contension.
1964 - Lorenzo Bandini scored his only win at the Austrian GP driving a Ferrari.
Also a future world champion Jochen Rindt made his debut in this race becoming the first Austrian to take part in a world championship.
2009 - Rubens Barrichello won European GP in Valencia scoring his penultimate win and 100th win for a brazilian driver in F1. This race also saw a debut of Romain Grosjean, a return of Luca Badoer and Timo Glock scored his first and only (to date) and Toyota's last fastest lap.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Sorry Rokas I've been useless at updating the thread this week.
Good job

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

Sorry Rokas I've been useless at updating the thread this week.
Good job

Thanks

August 24th:

1952 - Alberto Ascari won a non-championship event XI Grand Prix de la Baule driving a Ferrari.
1958 - Stirling Moss won Portuguese GP for Vanwall to close the margin to Hawthorn in the championship to 4 points.
1964 - Eric Bernard was born. Between 1989 and 1994 he made 45 starts achieving 1 podium finish and 10 world championship points.
1975 - Clay Regazzoni, driving for Ferrari, won a non-championship Swiss GP in France .
1997 - Luigi Villoresi died. Between 1950 and 1956 he made 31 starts scoring 49 points and achieving 8 podiums. Although in terms of F1 he didn't achieve anything too significant, but before f1 as we know it he won numerous Grand Prix including big ones like Targa Florio in 1939,1940; Mille Miglia in 1951; Tripoli GP(a big one especially in early days of gp) in 1937.
1997 - Michael Schumacher won Belgian GP to pull away from Villeneuve in championship.
Also Giancarlo Fisichella scored his best result at a time - 2nd place. This was also the first time in formula one history that the race started behind the safety car.
2003 - Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at the time when he won Hungarian GP.
2008 - Felipe Massa (yes, him) won European GP at Valencia's streets to move up to second in the championship reeling in Hamilton. This was also Brigestone's 200th GP.

August 25th:

1985 - Niki Lauda won Dutch GP. This race proved to be the last ever Dutch GP, last ever win for Lauda (his 25th), and sadly the last race of young rising star Stefan Bellof who was killed just a week later in a 1000 km event in Spa-Francorchamps driving a Porsche 956.
1991 - Ayrton Senna won Belgian GP putting himself further away in the championship now leading by 22 points. This race however is best known for the debut of a Michael Schumacher who replaced in prisoned Bertrand Gachot. Schumi who never been at the circuit and had never driven a prototype before managed to get his Jordan car in to 7th on the grid. Joy, however, turned to misery as clutch decided that enough is enough...on the 1st lap.
1996 - Michael Schumacher won Belgian GP ahead of his two big future rivals Jacques Villeneuve and Mika Hakkinen, meanwhile Jacques, in his debut year in f1, closed in slightly on Damon Hill in the championship now 13 points behind.

P.S. Does anyone reads this? Not too much notice from other than Chris and I(and Bram of course ) and Karl .

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

August 26th:

1950 - Nino Farina won the 2nd BRDC International Trophy, a non-championship Formula One event. The race was famous for the legendary lack of reliability of BRM V16 which resulted in neither of the two cars completing a full timed lap.
1956 - Harry Schell won 4th Grand Prix de Caen, driving a Maserati. This was also a non-championship event.
1962 - Jack Brabham won the 3rd Danish Grand Prix held at Roskilde Ring which was the first permanent racing circuit in Denmark.
1976 - A guy we all know well - Mark Webber was born. Up to this point he scored 9 wins, 32 podiums, 10 poles, 32 podiums, scored 793.5 points and I fear his missed his only shot at the world championship in 2010.
1979 - Alan Jones won Dutch GP for Williams scoring his 3rd and Williams'es(?) 4th win in succesion while Jody Scheckter finished second for Ferrari almost securing his world championship title needing only 4 points in the remaining races.
1984 - Alain Prost won Dutch Grand Prix in a McLaren 1-2. This result meant that McLaren-TAG Porsche secured constructors championship with 3 races remaining.
1990 - Ayrton Senna scored his 5th win of the season and his 4th win at SPA from which the last three were in succesion. This race saw 3 attemps at a start. This was 25th win of Senna's career.
2007 - Felipe Massa led a Ferrari 1-2 as he won Turkish GP.

August 27th:
1954 - Derek Warwick was born. Between 1981 and 1993 he made 162 GP starts but never won one. During the early 1980s he was thought more likely to achieve World Championship success than his contemporary Nigel Mansell, but a series of wrong career choices held him back. Derek achieved 4 podium finishes, 2 fastest laps, and scored 71 world championship points.
1959 - Gerhard Berger was born . Between 1984 and 1997 he made 210 starts achieving 10 wins, 12 poles, 48 podiums, 12 fastest laps, scoring 385 points.
He finished third in the championship in 1988 and 1994. He is also famous for taking Benetton's first and last victories, with eleven years separating them.
1961 - Stirling Moss took an easy victory at the non-championship 2nd Danish Grand Prix held at Roskilde Ring.
1967 - Jack Brabham won Canadian GP scoring a tenth win for his own team, a minute ahead of his Brabham team-mate Dennis Hulme. This race is famous for a pathetic attempt to complete the race by Al Pease. Having already changed his battery on the grid, losing six laps, he spun and stalled out on the circuit during the race, and suffered another flat battery. He ran back to the pits for a new one, ran back to the car, fitted the battery himself and continued. He was still running at the finish, albeit 43 laps down on the winner.
1978 - Mario Andretti won uneventful Dutch GP in a Lotus Ford 1-2. This was Andretti's last GP win and the last GP won by an American driver.
1989 - Ayrton Senna led from start to finish in a very wet Belgian GP to close in on Prost's championship lead as McLaren recorded yet another 1-2. This was also the first time that both Lotus cars entered for a World Championship race failed to qualify. They were driven by Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima. This also Thierry Boutsen's 100th race.
1995 - Michael Schumacher won Belgian GP ahead of Damon Hill in a changeable condition tire strategy race.
2000 - Mika Hakkinen won Belgian GP after famously overtaking M.Schumacher in Kemmel straight using a backmarker as they overtook Ricardo Zonta together at the same time and from each side in the process.
2006 - Felipe Massa converted his first pole position into his first win at the Turkish GP.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

August 28th:

1977: Niki Lauda wins and gets the fastest lap at Zandvoort for Ferrari.
1983: Ferrari 1-2 at Zandvoort, with Rene Arnoux and Patrick Tambay.
1988: Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost score a McLaren 1-2 at Spa-Francorchamps. Both Benneton cars were DSQ for having illegal fuel.
1994: Damon Hill wins the Belgian GP for Williams. Schumacher DSQ for Benneton.
2011: Vettel and Webber score a Red Bull 1-2 at Spa. Button 3rd.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

August 29th:

1976: James Hunt wins for McLaren in Zandvoort.
1982: Keke Rosberg wins the Dijon-Prenois GP. Alain Prost in 2nd gets the fastest lap.
1993: Damon Hill wins at Spa for Williams. Schumacher 2nd for Benneton.
1999: David Coulthard heads up a McLaren 1-2 in Spa, with Mika Hakkinen in 2nd.
2004: Kimi Raikkonen wins at Spa. Schumacher and Barrichello in 2nd and 3rd.
2010: Lewis Hamilton wins at Spa on his 4th attempt.

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

August 30th:

1937 - Bruce McLaren was born. Between 1958 and 1970 he made 100 starts scoring 4 wins, 27 podiums, 3 fastest laps and scored 188.5 points. He also won 1966 Le Mans 24 hour race in a closest ever Le Mans finish (an estimated 8 meters ) teaming up with fellow Kiwi Chris Amon driving a Ford GT40. However he is best known for his McLaren team which he founded in 1963. He scored his teams first win by winning 1968 Belgian GP. His team also won numerous Can-Am races, in 1967 they won five of six races and in 1968, four of six. The following year McLarens proved unbeatable, winning 11 of 11 races. In two races, they finished 1-2-3. (McLaren, Hulme and Mark Donohue) winning the title on all three occasions. Sadly, Bruce McLaren was killed when his Can-Am car crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote corner at Goodwood Circuit on 2 June 1970. He had been testing his new M8D when the rear bodywork came adrift at speed. The loss of aerodynamic downforce destabilized the car, which spun, left the track and hit a bunker used as a flag station. His legacy lives on to this day in his very own McLaren team.
1953 - Frenchman Maurice Trintignant made his country proud with a win at his home race, a non-championship race at V Circuit de Cadours driving for home outfit "Gordini".
1981 - Alain Prost won Dutch Grand Prix for Renault scoring his 2nd win of career, just over 8 seconds ahead of now a joint championship leader Nelson Piquet driving for Brabham. This race also marked last ever points finish for Ensign team with Eliseo Salazar finishing in 6th and last ever points finish for mexican Hector Rebaque. He finished in 4th.
1992 - Michael Schumacher scored first of his record 91 wins at Belgian GP driving for Benetton while Williams drivers Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese finished 2nd and 3rd respectively to secure the Constructors Championship for Williams - their first title since 1987. It was also the race where Ayrton Senna famously stopped on the race track to help Érik Comas after his crash in practise by cutting off the engine, preventing a fire as Comas had passed out in the car.
1998 - Damon Hill scored Jordan's first and his 22nd and last win in a 1-2 for Jordan with Ralf Schumacher finishing in second and Jean Alesi scoring his last ever podium in Formula One driving for Sauber. However this race is famous for two things: David Coulthard triggering a 13 car crash on a first lap and then after restart getting in a way of Michael Schumacher, a runaway leader which led to a great result for Jordan.
2009 - Kimi Raikkonen won Belgian GP scoring his 18th and last win to date. This was also Ferrari's only win of 2009 season. However the "Hero" of the race was Giancarlo Fisichella who started from Pole (a first for Force India) and finished second securing not only the first podium for the team, but also their first points finish in the teams history. This was a last podium finish Fisi. Championship leaders Brawn GP didn't had a great time with Jenson Button crashing out on lap 1 and scoring a big fat 0. While Barrichello's car was smoking from the back for the last few laps and the car caught fire in parc fermé. Rubens still got 2 points for the team.

August 31st:

1906 - Raymond Sommer was born. He was one of drivers in the first world championship in 1950.He made 5 starts however finished only once, scoring 3 points. In 1932 he won Le Mans almost single handedly having to drive solo for 20 hours because his team mate Luigi Chinetti got ill. In 1933 he won again. In September 1950, he entered the Haute-Garonne Grand Prix in Cadours, France where the steering failed on his 1100 cc Cooper and the car overturned at a corner. Sommer was instantly killed, his traditional canvas helmet proving to be no use at all.
1948 - Harald Ertl was born. Between 1975 and 1980 he made 19 starts, but driving for the teams such as Hesketh, Ensign and ATS he had no chance to achieve something. He is best known for being one of the four drivers who helped pull Niki Lauda from his burning Ferrari after Lauda's infamous crash at Nordschleife. Harald Ertl was killed in a plane crash in 1982.
1980 - Nelson Piquet won Dutch GP in Zandvoort driving for Brabham to significanly reduce the non-scoring Alan Jones'es championship lead.

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

September 1st:

1962 - Jim Clark won a non-championship race: International Gold Cup in Oulton Park, driving for Lotus. He was more then a minute ahead Graham Hill in 2nd.
1963 - Jack Brabham won a non-championship event 1st Austrian Grand Prix. He finished a massive 5 laps ahead of the next finisher. This race also marked the debut of a future world champion Jochen Rindt and Kurt Bardi-Barry made his only grand prix appearance he was to be killed in a road accident in February 1963.
1985 - Stefan Bellof was killed in a 1000km of Spa - a World Sportscar Championship race. In terms of F1 where he was "a future world champion" he made 20 starts scoring 4 points. He is best known for holding the outright Nordschleife lap record to this day.
2002 - Michael Schumacher won Belgian Grand Prix in a Ferrari 1-2 to continue to smash his opposition, now leading the championship by a massive 71 points. He also recorded his 50th fastest lap.

September 2nd:

1951 - Juan Manuel Fangio won a non-championship 5th Gran Premio di Bari, driving for Alfa Romeo.
1956 - Stirling Moss won the final race of the season: Italian Grand Prix. Peter Collins had a chance to win the world championship but handed his car over when Fangio broke down and Luigi Musso refused to give his. The race saw the World Championship debuts of Jo Bonnier, Les Leston and Wolfgang von Trips and the final World Championship appearances for Hernando da Silva Ramos, Toulo de Graffenried, Robert Manzon, Piero Taruffi and Luigi Villoresi. Ron Flockhart scored his first World Championship points (and podium finish) and it was the first World Championship race led by Luigi Musso.
1966 - Olivier Panis was born. In terms of F1 he made 157 starts winning 1996 Monaco Grand Prix - the race that hold the record for fewest number of cars (3) to be running at the end of a Grand Prix race and also scoring a last win for Ligier team. That was his only win. He also achieved 5 podiums and scored 76 points
2001 - Michael Schumacher won Belgian Grand Prix surpassing the record of Alain Prost's 51 Grand Prix wins. This race also saw the last ever podium for Benetton prior to their renaming to Renault with Giancarlo Fisichella finishing in third. This race also saw 4 attempts at a start which meant the race was shortened from 44 to 36 laps.
2012 - Jenson Button's streak of bad results finally ended as he won Belgian Grand Prix. His 14th Grand Prix win.

If someone reads this - Thanks.

 

[Chronus]

No,Rokas. Thank you. Good read.

Wow, Olivier Panis is older than me.

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On a sombre note: Stefan Bellof. Great driver lost.

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

September 3rd:
1950 - Giuseppe "Nino" Farina won Italian GP to become first ever world champion. He was the first driver to enter the final race placed 3rd in a championship but emerge victorious (a feat repeated by Kimi Raikkonen in 2007 and Sebastian Vettel in 2010). He is also to this day the only driver to become the world champion in his home country. Also 5th place finisher Phillipe Etancelin became (and still holds this record to this day) the oldest man to score points in a world championship - aged 53.
1955 - Roy Salvadori, driving a Maserati, won a non-championship race: 2nd Daily Telegraph Trophy held at Aintree.
1961 - Stirling Moss won a non-championship race: 15th Modena Grand Prix, driving for Lotus.

September 4th:
1960 - Phil Hill won contraversial Italian GP in a 10k (full) Monza - a reason for controversy. Italian organizers decided to maximize Ferrari's one advantage—straightline speed—by using the combined Monza road and banked oval circuit, making the fast Monza even faster . Citing the fragility of their cars and the dangers of the banking, the major British factory teams of the day—Lotus, B.R.M., and Cooper, all boycotted the event, leading to a cobbled together field of private entrants and Formula 2 cars. This led to a rare Ferrari 1-2-3, with Richie Ginther in 2nd and Willy Mairesse in 3rd. This race saw first ever win by an American in a Grand Prix, a last win for a front engined car in a world championship and only ever points finish for Scuderia Castellotti with Giulio Cabianca finishing in fourth.
1966 - Ludovico Scarfiotti scored his only career win in the Italian Grand Prix, becoming the first italian to win at Monza since 1952 when Alberto Ascari won, while Jack Brabham made history - winning the world championship in a car of his own make despite retiring because of an oil leak, reason being because his only remaining points rival John Surtees retired with with a fuel leak.
2005 - Juan Pablo Montoya won Italian GP achieving the fastest ever speed recorded during a F1 race, 372.6 km/h in a process. This race also saw no retirements a feat last seen in 1961 Dutch GP and in an ill faithed 2005 U.S. GP.

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

September 5th:

1939 - Clay Regazzoni was born. Between 1970 and 1980 he made 132 starts, scoring 5 wins, 28 podiums, 5 pole positions, 15 fastest laps. He was second in the 1974 drivers championship. His career was cut short after a crash at Long Beach when his brake pedal broke in his Ensign and he hit a stationary car of Ricardo Zunino's retired Brabham sending Clay into the barriers and leaving him paralysed from the waist down. Later he was killed in a road accident in 2006 when he hit a lorry .
1954 - Juan Manuel Fangio, already with the title in the bag, won Italian Grand Prix for Mercedes in the penultimate race of the season. Ferrari was left with the other two steps of a podium with Mike Hawthorn a lap down in second, and a shared third between Umberto Magioli (his first podium) and Jose Froilan Gonzalez. Also a future GP winner Luigi Musso made his debut in a Maserati.
1965 - Youngest son of Jack Brabham - David Brabham was born. in 1990 and 1994 he made 30 starts achieving nothing, reason being he that he drove for a below par teams - Simtek and Brabham. He is famous for being one of only four Australians to win Le Mans, doing so in 2009.
1970 - Jochen Rindt was killed in practise for the Italian Grand Prix after a failure of the car's right front brakeshaft sent him into a poorly installed crash barrier just before Parabolica. He went on to become the only posthumous world champion.
1971 - Peter Gethin got his first and only win in the last ever chicane-less Italian Grand Prix driving for B.R.M.. And what a win it was. He came from fourth in the last lap to win in a closest ever finish in Formula One history - one hundreth of a second ahead of Ronnie Peterson in a March while the top five was separated by 0.61 of a second. Another interesting fact is that none of top 6 finishers had ever won a Grand Prix before. Race results meant that Tyrrell won their first Constructors Championship.

September 6th:

1953 - Edgar Barth, driving for EMW-BMW , won a non-championship Formula One race - 5th Sachsenringrennen held at Sachsenring (obviously ).
1964 - John Surtees, driving for Ferrari, won Italian Grand Prix and with two championship leaders Graham Hill in a B.R.M. retiring with clutch problem before the start and Jim Clark in a Lotus retiring with engine failure, championship got very tight with Hill, Clark and Surtees separated by 4 points.
1970 - Clay Regazzoni won Italian Grand Prix driving for Ferrari, scoring his first career win. Sadly, this occasion was marred by the death of then championship leader Jochen Rindt who went on to become the only posthumous world champion.
1987 - Nelson Piquet won, yes you got it right, Italian Grand Prix driving for Williams. This was sixth consecutive win for Williams and Piquet's 3rd and last win that year. This win strengthened his situation over Ayrton Senna (who finished 2nd by the way) now leading Senna by 14 points. Meanwhile Nigel Mansell finished 3rd to help Williams increase their lead in the Constructors Championship to 51 points. Also Michele Alboreto had his 100th Grand Prix start.

September 7th:

1952 - Alberto Ascari, who had already secured his 1st world championship, won Italian Grand Prix driving for Ferrari. He was one minute ahead of Jose Froilan Gonzalez of Maserati who lost the race because of a slow pit stop. Ascari's team-mate Luigi Villoresi was 3rd. This was also Ferrari's 10th Grand Prix win in the world championship.
1958 - Tony Brooks won Italian GP driving for Vanwall. This result meant that Vanwall won the first ever Constructors Championship. Mike Hawthorn finished second almost securing his world championship, while his main rival Stirling Moss retired with gearbox failure. Roy Salvadori got two points for Cooper although he was a massive 8 laps down. Masten Gregory and Carroll Shelby finished in points but got none of them because of a shared drive.
1969 - Jackie Stewart won Italian Grand Prix for Matra in a closest 1-2-3-4 finish in Formula One history. 0.19 separating the top four, Jochen Rindt (2nd for Lotus +0.08); Jean-Pierre Beltoise (3rd for Matra +0.17); and Bruce McLaren (4th for McLaren +0.19). This result meant that Jackie Stewart and Matra clinched driver and constructors championship respectively with 3 races to go.
1975 - Clay Regazzoni won Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari scoring his 3rd win, while Niki Lauda got his Ferrari up to third. This was a glorious result for Ferrari because it meant that both championships are now secure with Emerson Fittipaldi now being too far behind from Lauda who won his 1st world title and Ferrari scoring their first constructors championship since 1964.
1986 - Nelson Piquet won Italian Grand Prix for Williams after he overtook his team-mate Nigel Mansell in Curva Grande. This result reduced Mansell's lead over Piquet to 5 points while Williams pulled further away in a constructors now leading by 42 points. This race marked last ever points finishes for Keke Rosberg and Alan Jones - former world champions.
1997 - David Coulthard scored his 3rd career win at the Italian Grand Prix. He dedicated this race to Princess Diana , while Mika Hakkinen recorded his first ever fastest lap.
2008 - Felipe Massa won contraversial Belgian (yes Belgian, not Italian) Grand Prix after the initial winner Lewis Hamilton was penalised for cutting a chicane while battling(?) with Kimi Raikkonen who later crash out. Penalty demoted Hamilton to third and elevated Massa to first and Heidfeld to second. This meant that Hamilton now led the championship by a mere 2 points instead of 8 that he would have had if he was not penalised.

September 8th:

1956 - Roy Salvadori, driving for Cooper, won a non-championship race: 2nd Sussex Trophy held at famous Goodwood, a track that holds annual Festival of Speed.
1956 - Stefan Johansson was born. Between 1980 and 1991 he made 79 starts scoring 12 podiums and 88 points. He is also a Le Mans winner. He won Le Mans in 1992 in a C2 class, then in 1997 he won Le Mans overall driving for Porsche, his last Le Mans win came in 2003 when he won in LMP900 class driving an Audi R8, he finished 3rd overall that year.
1957 - Stirling Moss, driving for Vanwall won the last race of the season - Italian Grand Prix. This made no difference in the championship as Juan Manuel Fangio had already wrapped it up earlier. Fangio finished 2nd which turned out to be his last podium before retiring. Wolfgang von Trips recorded his 1st ever podium finish.
1960 - Aguri Suzuki was born. Between 1988 and 1995 he made 64 starts achieving 1 podium (in his home GP in 1990 driving for Larrouse). Most notably however, he was the owner of the Super Aguri F1 team, which participated in Formula One from 2006 to 2008.
1963 - Jim Clark won Italian Grand Prix driving for Lotus. By doing that he secured his 1st world championship with 3 races to spare - a first driver to do so.
1968 - Denny Hulme won Italian Grand Prix driving for McLaren to close in to the championship leader to 6 points yet only be 4th in the standings behind Graham Hill (1st, 30 points, Lotus); Jacky Ickx (2nd, 27 points, Ferrari); and Jackie Stewart (3rd, 26 points, Matra). Also Johnny Servoz-Gavin scored his only podium by finishing 2nd for Matra. This also 100th race for Graham Hill.
1974 - Ronnie Peterson won Italian Grand Prix driving for Lotus, scoring his 7th win. Championship got very tight after this one with Clay Regazzoni leading (46 points, Ferrari); Jody Scheckter 2nd (45 points Ferrari); Emerson Fittipaldi 3rd (43 points, McLaren).
1985 - Alain Prost won Italian Grand Prix driving fo McLaren. It was Prost 5th and last win that season as he powered towards 1st of his 4 titles. It was the last Formula One Grand Prix where the winning driver received a laurel wreath. Also Marc Surer scored his last points finishing in 4th and Elio de Angelis had his 100th Grand Prix start.
1991 - Nigel Mansell won Italian Grand Prix for Williams while Senna took 2nd with an inspired drive through the field from 5th to 2nd after an unscheduled tyre change. After this result Senna led Mansell in the championship by 18 points. Meanwhile Michael Schumacher in his second start (after having changed teams from Jordan to Benetton in between races) scored his first ever points. This was also 200th Grand Prix start for Nelson Piquet, he finished 6th.
1996 - Michael Schumacher won Italian Grand Prix driving for Ferrari. This was his first Italian Grand Prix victory he also recorded his 25th fastest lap in the process. This race, however, is famous for having tyre barriers erected at each chicane to stop people jumping the curbs. This caught out 8 drivers (5 of whom retired). Meanwhile Pedro Diniz finished in 6th, scoring last points for Ligier.

As always, thanks for reading (if you do that is ). Although it seems that even original poster has left the building

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

Lets move on, shall we?

September 9th:

1973 - Ronnie Peterson won Italian Grand Prix in a 1-2 for Lotus. He was just 0,8 of a second ahead of his team-mate Emerson Fittipaldi. Meanwhile a stunning drive from Jackie Stewart after he suffered a puncture coming all the way back from 20th to 4th and Fittipaldi's failure to win meant that Stewart won his 3rd and final world title with two races to spare. This was also last points finish for Francois Cevert as he was to be involved in a fatal crash in the next race.
1979 - Jody Scheckter scored his last win as he won Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari after his main rivals in the race - Renaults driven by Rene Arnoux and Jean-Pierre Jabouille started to suffer from misfiring. Schekter's Ferrari team-mate Gilles Villeneuve finished half a second behind in second place in a Ferrari 1-2 at home. This result clinched both drivers crown for Jody Scheckter and constructors crown for Ferrari with two races to spare.
1984 - Niki Lauda won Italian Grand Prix for McLaren. He pulled away in the championship from his team-mate main rival Alain Prost who suffered engine problems early in the race. Riccardo Patrese finished 3rd to score Alfa Romeo's last ever podium in Formula One. This is also the only race where 3 Austrians finished in the top 6.
1990 - Ayrton Senna took lights to flag victory in the Italian Grand Prix for McLaren with his team-mate and championship rival Alain Prost finishing in second. Senna extended his lead in the championship to 16 points.
2007 - McLaren dominated in Ferrari's home race in Italy with Fernando Alonso winning and Lewis Hamilton making a recovery from puncture to finish 2nd. At this point Lewis still led the Championship from Alonso by 3 points.
2012 - Lewis Hamilton took an easy victory in the Italian Grand Prix. Sergio Perez picked up yet another podium for Sauber while Fernando Alonso maintained his strong position in the championship by finishing in 3rd. It was bad day at the office for Contstructors Championship leaders Red Bull as Sebastian Vettel suffered alternator problems and Mark Webber suffered from tyre wear both scoring a zero.

To be continued...

 

[Chronus]

As always, thanks for reading (if you do that is ). Although it seems that even original poster has left the building

You know, posts like these are important for 2 good reasons, in my opinion:
- to keep the names of those pilots from falling into the mist of "that's pre-history"
- as a reminder of how many great names were brutally lost (Peterson, Depailler, Paletti, Angelis, Ratzenberger and Senna)

Hope you keep at it, it is also good reading.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Sorry I haven't been contributing. My work changed servers and Race Department is now blocked so I can't get on it

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

Damn... Power outage, will have to write everything all over again... So....let's move on

September 10th:

1961 - Phil Hill won Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari scoring his 3rd and last career win. This race, however, was marred by the death of his team-mate and only championship rival Wolfgang von Trips (a championship leader coming into the race) who lost control of his Ferrari just before "Parabolica" and went straight into the stand full of people. This resulted in the death of Von Trips and 15 other spectators . This result meant that Phil Hill became the championship leader and with no other driver being even remotely close to him in the standings (except for the unfortunate Von Trips) he secured his first and only world title. He also became the first American to win the world champion and the only ever American-born driver to do so (Mario Andretti who is the only other driver from the United States to become Formula One champion was born in Italy). Also Jackie Lewis scored his only career points by finishing in 4th for Cooper. Also the late Roy Salvadori scored his last ever point in Formula One by finishing in 6th for Cooper. This race also saw the debut of young Riccardo Rodriguez who was considered a future world champion only to die very young.

1967 - John Surtees driving for Honda barely held off Jack Brabham (by +0.2 of a second to be exact) to win Italian Grand Prix which would turn out to be John's 6th and last win. This was Honda's second win in Formula One of the three wins they would have in history, while a very frustrated Jim Clark (Lotus) finished 3rd - reason for frustration was a puncture which he suffered just after mid-point of the race while leading after which he put in a stunning drive to get from being a lap down back into the lead only to denied by a faulty fuel pump while being only a handful of laps from the end. Jacky Ickx finished in 6th for Cooper to score his first career point.

1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi won Italian Grand Prix driving in a sole Lotus. Reason behind this was that the second Lotus car was seriously damaged after the transporter crash. Nevertheless this result meant that both Emerson Fittipaldi and Lotus were champions with 2 races to spare. By winning the title Emerson Fittipaldi became the youngest ever world champion at the time - aged 25 years and 273 days. Also in this race tyre manufacturer "Firestone" recorded their last win as a tyre supplier, John Surtees made his last start in Formula One while motorcycling legend Mike Hailwood scored his best result ever in Formula One by finishing 2nd for Surtees. Late Peter Revson finished 6th for BRM which turned out to be his last points scoring finish.

1978 - Niki Lauda driving a Brabham-Alfa Romeo won Italian Grand Prix after the initial winner Mario Andretti (Lotus) and runner-up Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) were given 1 minute penalty for jumping the start, they dropped to 6th and 7th respectively. Sadly, this was yet another tragic race in Formula One history as there was a massive start crash which was trigerred by turning on the red lights before all the cars had lined up. This resulted in a bunching up in the first corner eventually ending in a 9 car pile-up. Everybody seemed to be OK except Ronnie Peterson (a championship contender at the time) who suffered severe leg injuries. He died the next day following a complication from surgery. With only championship opponent suffering fatal injuries Mario Andretti secured his world championship with two races to spare.

1989 - Alain Prost driving for McLaren won Italian Grand Prix. This turned out to be his last win for McLaren before moving to Ferrari. Knowing that he was signed to Ferrari for the following season, he dropped the trophy from the podium to the crowd. His win secured constructors championship for McLaren despite the fact that Senna failed to score. With Senna not scoring his championship chances had complicated as he now felt from 10 to 20 points behind.

1995 - Johnny Herbert won Italian Grand Prix for Benetton after a bizzare string of retirements. Firstly Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher collided after a backmarker Taki Inoue he had slid in front of Hill while being passed by Schumacher, causing Hill to take evasive action and inadvertently run into the back of Schumacher's car. This briefly left the Ferrari's running first and second. However, Gerhard Berger suffered a bizarre retirement when a TV camera on Jean Alesi's car flew off and destroyed Berger's suspension. Alesi led the race with just 7 laps to go but subsequently retired with wheel bearing trouble. This was Herbert's 2nd career win. Meanwhile Heinz-Harald Frentzen scored his first and Sauber's first ever podium. Also Mika Salo scored his first ever points by finishing in 5th for Tyrrell, and Jean-Christophe Boullion scored his last point by finishing 6th for Sauber.

2000 - Michael Schumacher won Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari in a race which claimed the life of a fire marshal Paolo Ghislimberti when a loose wheel hit him in head and chest, he became the first fatality in Formula One since Ayrton Senna's death in 1994. The race it self was pretty straight forward with Schumacher leading Hakkinen all the way (except for when a pit stop exchange happened). There was also an emosional moment in the press conference as Schumacher broke into tears when asked if matching Senna's number of wins meant a lot to him.

2006 - Michael Schumacher won Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari now getting within 2 points of Alonso (who suffered an engine failure) in the championship. Right after the race Schumacher announced his first retirement. Meanwhile Robert Kubica made history as he made onto the podium in only his 3rd Grand Prix becoming the first Pole to do it. This was Schumi's 90th win.

Ok, it's late now... Thanks for reading.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Meanwhile Heinz-Harald Frentzen scored his first and Sauber's first ever podium. Also Mika Salo scored his first ever points by finishing in 5th for Sauber, and Jean-Christophe Boullion scored his last point by finishing 6th for Sauber.

Mika Salo got two points for Tyrrell, not Sauber. Though, I'm pretty sure you know that. But it just was too much Sauber there ;P

 

[Rokas Charlapavicius]

September 11th: (I have some catching up to do )

1955 - Juan Manuel Fangio won Italian Grand Prix driving for Mercedes, a race that was a first Formula One race after the 1955 Le Mans disaster were Pierre Levegh was killed together with 83 spectators . With the disaster causing the cancellation of (with the French Grand Prix already having been cancelled) the German, Swiss and Spanish Grand Prix's this situation gave away the title to Fangio way before this race. This was a first time since 1933 that the race was held on a full 10k Monza circuit and the first time for Formula One. This was Mercedes last win in Formula One until this years Chinese Grand Prix. Meanwhile Piero Taruffi made a Mercedes 1-2 to score his last ever podium and points finish, Carlos Menditeguy scored his first ever points by finishing 5th for Maserati. First ever world champion Nino Farina made his last grand prix appearance, he retired from the race following tire problems. It was also the last start for John Fitch, Karl Kling, Roberto Mieres, Jacques Pollet and Ken Wharton and a Grand Prix debut for Luigi Piotti and only start for Jean Lucas.

1977 - Mario Andretti won Italian Grand Prix for Lotus passing James Hunt (McLaren) and Jody Schekter (Wolf) in a first few laps. Niki Lauda satisfied the tifosi by finishing 2nd for Ferrari to edge even closer to the world championship crown. Alan Jones (Shadow) finished 3rd. This result secured the Constructors championship for Ferrari with 3 races to spare, while BRM had their last ever entry - Teddy Pilette failing to qualify.

1980 - Antonio Pizzonia was born. Between 2003 and 2005 he made 20 starts achieving 4 finishes in 7th place scoring 8 points. He drove for Jaguar and Williams teams never completing a full season though.

1983 - Nelson Piquet won Italian Grand Prix for Brabham-BMW and with championship leader Alain Prost not finishing the championship got very tight:
Prost (Renault) had 51 points, Rene Arnoux (Ferrari) who finished second in the race now had 49 points while Nelson Piquet now had 46 points and was in 3rd.

1988 - Gerhard Berger won Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari as heavy pre-race favorites McLaren (the only turbocharged car on the grid, and the only team to win races that year up to this point and indeed after it) both retired - Alain Prost retired with a misfire mid-race while Ayrton Senna retired while in a strong lead after he was t-boned by a backmarker - Williams driven by Jean-Louis Schlesser. Michele Alboreto made a 1-2 for Ferrari in the first Italian Grand Prix since the death of Enzo Ferrari . This was the last Formula One Grand Prix in which all turbo powered cars that were entered actually qualified for the race.

1994 - Damon Hill won Italian Grand Prix for Williams-Renault - the teams 75th win in Formula One. This result significanly boosted his championship chances because championship leader Michael Schumacher didn't participate as was serving his 2 race ban which he received after he failed to serve a stop-go penalty (for overtaking Hill on the warm-up lap) in time at the previous race - British Grand Prix. Eddie Irvine (Jordan) received his own 1 race ban after he took out Johnny Herbert (Lotus) in the first turn. This was the last ban until, well you know when.... Hill was now 11 points behind Schumacher in the standings.

2005 - Kimi Raikkonen won Belgian Grand Prix for McLaren, however this had almost no significance in the championship as Kimi was still 25 points behind Fernando Alonso who minimised his loses by finishing in 2nd. This race saw last ever points finish for both Tiago Monteiro and Jordan, a last ever podium for BAR and also Ralf Schumacher scored his last and Toyota's first fastest lap.

2011 - Sebastian Vettel took lights to flag victory as he won Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull to continue to put nails into opposition's coffins, now leading the championship by 112 points. Meanwhile Vitantonio Liuzzi played "Bowling" in the first turn to take out Petrov and Rosberg. Bruno Senna (Lotus Renault) finished in 9th to score his first career points.

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